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soul
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English s?wol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwal? (“soul”).
Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English s?wol.
Alternative forms
- sowl (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l, IPA(key): /s??l/
- (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA(key): /so?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl
Noun
soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)
- (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid
- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid
- The spirit or essence of anything.
- Life, energy, vigor.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- (music) Soul music.
- A person, especially as one among many.
- 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin
- I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
- 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin
- An individual life.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
- (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.
Synonyms
- (spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
- (a person): See also Thesaurus:person
Derived terms
Pages starting with “soul”.
Related terms
- mind
- spirit
Translations
Verb
soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- To beg on All Soul's Day.
- Coordinate term: trick-or-treat
Derived terms
- besoul
- dark night of the soul
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).
Verb
soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)
- (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner to this entry?)
References
- soul at OneLook Dictionary Search
- soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- soul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Luso-, luso-
Czech
Noun
soul m
- soul (music style)
Further reading
- soul in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Noun
soul
- soul music
Declension
Anagrams
- Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos
French
Alternative forms
- soûl, saoul
Etymology 1
From Latin satullus, diminutive of satur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su/
- Homophones: sou, sous
Adjective
soul (feminine singular soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)
- drunk
- Synonym: ivre
Derived terms
- souler
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English soul.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sol/
Noun
soul f (uncountable)
- soul, soul music
Further reading
- “soul” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?so?l]
- Hyphenation: soul
- Homophone: szól
- Rhymes: -o?l
Noun
soul (plural soulok)
- (music) soul music
Declension
Derived terms
- soulzene
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Noun
soul m or f (invariable)
- soul music
Old French
Adjective
soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)
- Alternative form of sol
Declension
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?wl/
Noun
soul m inan
- soul music
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /sow/
- Homophone: sou (when pronounced with the /w/)
Noun
soul m (uncountable)
- (music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English soul.
Noun
soul m (uncountable)
- soul, soul music
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metempsychosis
English
Etymology
From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek ???????????? (metempsúkh?sis).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m?t?ms???k??s?s/
Noun
metempsychosis (countable and uncountable, plural metempsychoses)
- Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. [from 16th c.]
- 1891, Rudyard Kipling, "The Finest Story in the World":
- The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
- To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis: only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.
- 1994, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.
- 1891, Rudyard Kipling, "The Finest Story in the World":
Translations
Further reading
- metempsychosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “metempsychosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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